Police investigate a fatal shooting on a SEPTA Broad Street Line train near the Girard Avenue Station in North Philadelphia on Friday night. Read more Elizabeth Robertson / Staff Photographer

by Robert Moran Updated Aug. 15, 2025, 9:12 p.m. ET | Published Aug. 15, 2025, 8:31 p.m. ET

A man was killed in a shooting on a SEPTA Broad Street Line train Friday night in North Philadelphia, and the suspected shooter turned himself in and said he fired in self-defense, police said.

The shooting occurred shortly before 7:40 p.m. on a northbound train, which was stopped at the Girard Avenue Station when police arrived.

The victim, described as possibly in his late teens, was transported by police to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:09 p.m.

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